Photos in & around our apt. rental* on the Dead Sea, then the first few from the early morning dip we took.
There were signs on the beach
not to immerse your head and it was almost impossible
not to swim on your back. Probably something to do with the salinity. And showers available to rinse off the salt water. Odd how spending only a little time in the water really caused your kidneys to work overtime. - not sure if that was because of toxins being drawn out, or the salt being absorbed into the skin.
The Dead Sea itself is rapidly disappearing, due to Jordan & other countries building
dams on the Jordan River that keep the water from flowing to it. Business enterprises are also diverting water to evaporate and produce potash and other things. This means hotels formerly at the water's edge are now
way away from the water, which causes canal building to bring the water from the north part to the southern part where the hotels are, and all of this causing
sink holes to appear everywhere. Up to thousands a year recently. And I think we drove up route 90 that is mentioned in the sink hole link. Recently a public beach, the causeway to which was created at great expense, to be closed shortly thereafter because of the danger of holes appearing willy-nilly along the coast. So see it soon while you can.
* (To give you an idea of their usual clientele, signs on the door
indicated there were 3 English-language stations, 3 German ones, &
14 in
Russian available on the cable
TV. Never did figure out how to get the TV to work, though.)
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| Kitty at the foot of the stairs. |
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| We were kind of in a construction zone. |
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| Confusing, yes? |
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| I think it's over there. |
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| Early morning above the Dead Sea. |
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| Looking west from the beach. |
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The only place in the world where you can do this (or maybe
also in Salt Lake in the U.S.?) |
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| Local fauna. |
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| I think that's Jan's head on the left. |
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